A Greener Life

JULY 7, 2021

New research from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) confirms renewables are continuing to outpace fossil fuels on cost. They found that the share of renewable energy that achieved lower costs than the most competitive fossil fuel option doubled in 2020. C climate pathway.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The solar energy sector is big and getting bigger. That’s a really good thing given the central role we expect and need solar to play in a just transition away from fossil fuels. Last year, solar accounted for almost 5 percent of US electricity. Rooftop solar is an important piece of the sector’s success.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The state-specific fact sheet, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables for Minnesota , outlines how it could meet its electricity needs completely and equitably with renewable energy by 2035 and dramatically reduce fossil fuel use in vehicles and buildings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

Flagged as a permit violation DEP site inspection in 2022 , the coal ash pile had surpassed the approved size, enveloping parts of the surrounding area. DEP originally gave Scrubgrass four years to remove the coal ash.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2024

For example, the average duration of blackouts in Puerto Rico between April 2023 and March 2024 was 1,414 minutes, or almost 24 hours (the average in the United States in 2022 was almost 6 hours). And their specialization in methane gas means that they have an obvious incentive to promote fossil fuels and not renewables.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

But gas power plants have also played an important role in helping to maintain the overall reliability of the electricity grid by meeting peak power demands, such as on hot summer days when people turn on their air conditioners. In this plan, almost all of this coal and gas generation is replaced with wind and solar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. According to a May 2022 report , utility companies cut power to US households more than 3.6 It provides essential services that can be a matter of life or death for millions of people.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i].

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The renewable energy sector experienced record growth in 2022 of 1%. But despite this, it did not shift the dominance of fossil fuels. 2022 was dominated by turmoil in energy markets , as Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine helped to boost gas and coal prices to record levels in Europe and Asia.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The tar sands currently (2022) emit 87 MT of carbon each year, so a $16 billion investment of taxpayer money would net a reduction of 3.4 Real solutions, not dangerous distractions, are needed Fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis. It’s called wind and solar power. Why push these false solutions?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v. Despite the West Virginia v.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Backed by The GIANT Company’s commitment, Constellation has entered into separate long-term power purchase agreements to procure a total of 80 megawatts of renewable energy. The solar projects, which will be developed by Pine Gate Renewables, are expected to achieve commercial operation between June 2022 and January 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Small-scale solar in Pennsylvania produced 2.3 times more energy in 2022 than it did 5 years prior according to Rooftop Solar on the Rise , a new report released by PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center on February 13. Residential solar in the state grew 207% from 2017 through 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

At the same time, to avoid repeats of prior destructive stop-start policy lapses while simultaneously signaling a long-term incentive off-ramp, policymakers scheduled the tax credit to begin phasing out for resources coming online in 2033 or after power sector emissions are below 25% of 2022 levels, whichever is later.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Alberta: Speak Up For a SAFE Climate: Take Action Here How Climate Action Makes Life More Affordable Renewable energy, including solar and wind power, is much cheaper and less polluting than burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil and coal. Shifting that $4.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last month, the British-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported that London-based HSBC, one of the world’s top-10 biggest banks, has helped raise $47 billion for the fossil fuel industry since its 2022 announcement that it would not finance new gas and oil infrastructure. degrees Celsius, or 2.7

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

By Odette Mucha , Vote Solar and Liz Robinson , Philadelphia Solar Energy Association As we know, solar power provides a wide range of benefits to Pennsylvanians. It creates local jobs, with Pennsylvania currently home to over 400 solar companies with over 4,300 solar workers. billion in the Keystone State.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2024

In 2010, the cost of onshore wind was almost twice that of the cheapest fossil fuel generation. By 2022, the positions were reversed: onshore wind cost half as much as the cheapest fossil fuel power. The cost of solar PV fell even more steeply. That makes a world of difference.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48—that’s an area comparable to or even smaller than the fossil fuel industry’s current footprint. Map courtesy NREL: Denholm et al. Examining Supply-Side Options to Achieve 100% Clean Electricity by 2035.)

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

A solar-powered charging station in Yibin, south-west China. Two-way charging could give vehicles like these the potential to stabilise power supplies by discharging stored electricity back to the grid. A 2022 Stanford University study into the situation in the US came to a similar conclusion.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 9, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the State of California joined the State of New York in adopting legislation that allows state authorities to bypass local laws in permitting large-scale renewable energy projects. As of March 2022, the Sabin Center had identified 121 local ordinances across the country to block or restrict renewable energy facilities.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels. According to the country’s Finance Division , as of April 2022, just under 60% of total installed generation capacity used fossil fuels, including gas, oil and coal. Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables.

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A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

A small town generating its own power, a city school equipping its rooftop with solar panels, and a company building solar water heaters that help to cut energy bills: small-scale initiatives across Argentina are showing the active role people can play in building a renewable energy-powered future.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 1, 2024

Renewable energy projects face significant disadvantages in the siting process compared to fossil fuel projects due to a three-year-old state law that allows counties to block large solar and wind projects—but not large fossil fuel projects. Smaller projects are permitted at the county level.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Few people realize that Germany has actually increased its fossil fuel combustion capacity over the 20 years of its landmark renewable energy program from 2001 to the present. 5] Jesse Jenkins, “A Plan to Future-Proof the Texas Power Grid,” New York Times , February 18, 2021. [6] 49 (2015): 15060-15065; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1510028112

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2022

A 2021 report by the US Department of Energy’s Solar Futures Study estimates that as much as 1,600 GW of storage could be available by 2050 in a decarbonized grid scenario if solar power ramps up to meet 45 percent of electricity demand as predicted. Currently only 4 percent of US electricity comes from solar.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2022

Other States/National/International -- WSJ: Solar-Power Developers Pledge To Buy U.S. What’s Your Community Doing? Panels - If Someone Makes Them PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Scranton Times: Lackawanna County Woman Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2022

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal A solar power boom generated by new renewable energy mandates is unfurling in the Chesapeake Bay region. Virginia, for example, was ninth in the nation for new solar capacity in 2021. one of the largest solar developers in the nation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2024

But for the most part, conservative states are engaged in a selfish game of quietly reaping the benefits of renewable energy while doing the bidding of the fossil fuel industry, to retard progress on the national level. The top states for solar power growth since 2014 are Texas and Florida.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

On March 17, the Community College of Allegheny County officially “flipped the switch” to solar power. The extensive new 543-kilowatt solar installation will produce enough electricity to power 30–40% of CCAC North Campus’s electrical energy needs. Solar (Galvanizing our Energy Transition) program.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“As the impacts of climate change from drought, fire, flooding and heat waves become increasingly dire, there is growing urgency in accelerating a clean energy transition from fossil fuels to zero-carbon energy infrastructure,” Klass said. Yet the hurdles to accomplishing such a massive industrial-scale transition are daunting.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2023

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

By investing in retrofits, between 2022 and 2030 Ontario could see more than $15.2 Expand hydro capacity, increase intermittent renewables including wind and solar power, create more grid scale storage, increase rooftop solar capacity on buildings, and major grid interconnection with Quebec and Manitoba to enable electricity imports.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And it reveals how American families and businesses bear the brunt of wild price fluctuations in fossil fuels and deserve more stable, cleaner sources of energy. As a result, gas prices have doubled over the past year and higher prices are expected into 2022. According to the U.S. On top of that, the U.S. stays in the U.S.

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